The 2024 Conference on John Milton took place June 10-12, 2024, in conjunction with the Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. Please click here for the conference program.

Congratulations to the winners of the two conference paper prizes. The winner of the 2024 Kristin A. Pruitt and Charles W. Durham Award, for best paper at the conference, is Joshua Held, for “Reconsidering ‘Slaves and Negro’s‘ in Milton’s Prose: Race, Rhetoric, and the Iberian Slave Trade.”

And this year’s Kevin Donovan Award, for the best paper by a graduate student at the conference, goes to Sarah Baber, for “Satan’s Musical Imitation in Paradise Lost.”

For more information about the 2024 and 2022 conferences, please contact Sara van den Berg (sara.vandenberg@slu.edu), Jonathan Sawday (jonathan.sawday@slu.edu), or Ryan Netzley (rnetzley@siu.edu). The 2026 Conference on John Milton will take place at Brigham Young University. Please contact Jason Kerr for details.

For the 2024 conference poster, click on the image below.